The Portland daily press., 1887-08-06
BASE BALL.
HswEngIand League
GAME TO-DAY.

GAME TODAY.
The Lynns will play here again this, s,.ss,
noon. Demarris will probably pitch for
them.
PoRTLANDs, IL LYNNs, 2.
Nine hundred people saw the Portlands de-
feat the Lynns yesterday in finely played
and interesting game. 1t was one sided
from the start and up to the 9th inning
the question Of interest seemed to be wheth-
or the Lynns would get a run or not But
there was enough sharp playing, fine fielding
and good batting to make it interesting for
all. The batteries were the same as in the
game at Lynn last Wednesday when the
Portlands were defeated II to 4.-Small and
Thayer officiating for Portland, and Fitzger-
aid and Murphy for the visitors. Their work
was complete turnabout, however the
home club hitting Fitzgerald freely while the
Lynns could do nothing with Small with the
exception of in the 9th inning, when three
hits earned run. But such Is base ball
The fielding Of both clubs was excellent, the
Portlands making but one and the visitors
but two errors outside of the batteries.
Small pitched a splendid game and proved
that there Is good stuff in him yet. He was
admirably supported by Thayer who did not
have an error. Fitzgerald pitched a good
game but was little wild at times, Murphy
saving several wild pitches for him. He
good qualities since last year when he played
with the Newburyp0rts and Lynns and
caught Gruber. Duffy and Lufberry led in
the batting for the home team, the former
bringing in two runs in two different innings
and scoring three times on hits by the latter.
With the exception Of Galligan and Small
every man made one or more hits, and they
were all very timely as the fact that almost
as many runs were made as there were hits,
will show. The team also did some good
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opponents failed to make one. But six of
the Lynns hit Small safely and three of the
hits were made in the sixth when their first
run was made. Up to that time not a man
had seen second base and only Murphy and
Stone had found the ball. After that inning
Murray was the only man who could do any
thing and he made a clean hit to left. The
ball was batted over the fence many times
by both clubs but 1t dropped back of the foul
line every time.
The Portlands scored two runs In the first
Andrus got his base on balls, stole second
and was sent home by DickersOn who hit a
high fly for two bases. The latter took third
on a tumble of thrown ball by Stone, and
scored on Thayers put out. In the fourth
Hatfield got his base on balls, stole second
and was advanced TO third by Spills tumble
of Schoeneck's hit. The big first baseman
stole second, and both scored on Duffy's
put out Schoeneck at the home plate, and
Lufberry brought him in by a hit to centre
field. Three runs were earned in the sixth
on singles by Thayer, Schoeneck and Duffy,
and double by Lufberry, and single BY
Hatfield, adouble by Thayer, steal, put out
and wild pitch added two more In the
seventh. The last run was scored in the
eighth by Duffey who hit for two bases, took
third on an error by Fitzgerald, and scored
on Lufberry's hit. As stated above the
Lynns first ruu was scored on three hits In
the sixth. A base on balls, wild throw by
Hatfield and put out gave them one more
in the eighth.
GaIligan made his first appearance on the
home grounds in Portland uniform this
year. He was warmly applauded when he
stepped to the bat and he responded by bat
ting the ball over the fence three or four
times. But the wind was against him and
the ball daopped In the wrong place every
time. He did no hitting at all but his anxi-
ETY. to make a good showing was probably
the cause Of his i'll luck. He took care of
everything that went into left field, however,
and made an almost impossible catch Of
long fly off Leighton's bat, saving a run.
Lufberry made a couple Of his wonderful
stops and throws, the first one being a hot
grounder off Murphy's bat that seemed sure
Tor hit. Catches Of foul flies by Thayer,
Dunn and Corcoran were among the features
OF the game. Mahoney umpired and gave
general satisfaction, although he was rather
critical on balls and strikes, and forced both
pitchers to put them right over the plate.
Following Is the score: